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... French and German : Ampère's Journal . Achard's Souvenirs d'Emeutes . - Caro's Les Jours d'Épreuve . - Feuillet's Julie de Trécoeur . - Du Mesnil - Marigny's Histoire de l'Economie politique des anciens Peuples . -Elise Polko's Im ...
... French and German : Ampère's Journal . Achard's Souvenirs d'Emeutes . - Caro's Les Jours d'Épreuve . - Feuillet's Julie de Trécoeur . - Du Mesnil - Marigny's Histoire de l'Economie politique des anciens Peuples . -Elise Polko's Im ...
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... French critics , to be rendered by the same young tyros . When , in 1566 , in Christ Church Hall , " Palamon and Arcite " was finished , outspoken Queen Bess , with her frank eyes full of pleasure , declared " that Palamon must have ...
... French critics , to be rendered by the same young tyros . When , in 1566 , in Christ Church Hall , " Palamon and Arcite " was finished , outspoken Queen Bess , with her frank eyes full of pleasure , declared " that Palamon must have ...
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... French alliance ; the heav- 3 VOL . XXX . - NO . 177 . iest item being the habit of leaning upon France , and looking for help , at every pinch , to the French treasury . But this could not have been foreseen in 1776 ; and happy ...
... French alliance ; the heav- 3 VOL . XXX . - NO . 177 . iest item being the habit of leaning upon France , and looking for help , at every pinch , to the French treasury . But this could not have been foreseen in 1776 ; and happy ...
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... French Republic , vanished from his mind . " Wal ! " exclaimed Grimes . And upon saying that he relapsed into a silence which , under the circumstances , may perhaps have been more eloquent than words . " It's so absurd , " said Mrs ...
... French Republic , vanished from his mind . " Wal ! " exclaimed Grimes . And upon saying that he relapsed into a silence which , under the circumstances , may perhaps have been more eloquent than words . " It's so absurd , " said Mrs ...
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... French army . " has ever known the possibilities of carried this thought with. Mrs. Lovell . " I'm an awful coward . I'm frightened out of my wits . I did n't know there was going to be a siege , you know . There was no regular no- tice ...
... French army . " has ever known the possibilities of carried this thought with. Mrs. Lovell . " I'm an awful coward . I'm frightened out of my wits . I did n't know there was going to be a siege , you know . There was no regular no- tice ...
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Page 287 - tis no matter; Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 249 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever...
Page 249 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it ; for man is an imitative animal.
Page 287 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? no. Why? detraction will not suffer it. Therefore I'll none of it. Honour is a mere scutcheon: and so ends my catechism.
Page 335 - Great captains, with their guns and drums, Disturb our judgment for the hour, But at last silence comes ; These all are gone, and, standing like a tower, Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, foreseeing man, Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.
Page 28 - Deep rooted prejudices entertained by the whites; ten thousand recollections, by the blacks, of the injuries they have sustained; new provocations; the real distinctions which nature has made; and many other circumstances will divide us into parties, and produce convulsions, which will probably never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race.
Page 35 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested or burthened, in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Page 249 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and -thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 30 - There are at this time in the adjacent county not less than five or six well-meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments, which in the main are very orthodox.
Page 369 - I find the general fate of humanity here most deplorable. The truth of Voltaire's observation, offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil.